[SECC] Claimed Scores, Last Week's Contests; This Week's Contests

[John Laney]

Claimed Scores, Last Week's Contests:

1.  YO (Romanian) HF DX Contest
N4PN    717  107  231,984  SOSB/20HP  16     GA
K4BAI   439  103  155,015  SOABHP     14:26  GA

2.  Slovenia Contest Club (SCC) RTTY Contest
K9MUG   518  155  192,045  SOABHP     12     AL
K4HMB   222  110   60,830  SOABHP      8     NC  (SECC)

3.  NCCC North American Sprint Practice  8/29
K4BAI    42   21      882  SOLP       0.5    GA
K1ZZI    30   13      390  SOLP       0.5    GA

4.  August Straight Key Century Club Weekday Sprint (SKS)
K4ZGB    46   24    1,324  SOLP       2.0    AL

5.  Michigan QRP Club Labor Day Sprint
K4BAI    89   34    7,344  QRP5W      3:46   GA

6.  September ARS Spartan Sprint
K4BAI    47            47  TubbyQRP5W 2.0    GA

This Week's Contests:

1.  SNS Slow Speed NA Sprint Practice.  Thursday local, Friday 
0200-0215Z.  80, 40, 20 CW.  Maximum power 100W.  Maximum speed:  23 
WPM.  Exchange:  both calls, #, name, SPC.  Dupes OK after one 
intervening QSO.  One kHz QSY rule.

2.  NCCC North American Sprint Practices (NS).  Thursday and Friday 
local (Friday and Saturday UTC, 0230-0259).  80, 40, 20 CW.  Any legal 
power.   No dupes permitted.  QSY 1 kHz to QSO and 5 kHZ to CQ.  Mults 
count once per practice, not per band.  Exchange:  both calls, #, name, 
SPC.  Try to get on and check out your logging program in preparation 
for the real Sprint Saturday night.

3.  All Asia DX Contest, Phone.  48 hours of Sat and Sun UTC.  80-10M 
Phone.  Exchange:  RS + Age (or "00" for YLs).

4.  Russian RTTY WW Contest.  80-10M RTTY.  24 hours of Sat UTC. 
Exchange:  RS + CQ Zone or Russian 2 letter Oblast Abbreviation.

5.  FISTS CW Club G3ZQS International Memorial Straight Key Contest. 
23Z Fri to 23Z Sun.  80-10M CW.  RST + SPC + name + FISTS# or power. 
Anyone can participate, but you must use a Stright Key and state the 
straight key used on your entry for awards.

6.  RSGB and Region One IARU SSB Field Day.  13Z Sat to 1259Z Sun. 
80-10M SSB.  Exchange:  RS + Serial #.

7.  North American Sprint CW.  00-04Z Sun (Sat night local).  80, 40, 
20M CW.  Any legal power.  Exchange:  Both calls, #, name, SPC.  QSY 
rule:  If you solicit a call y any means, including completion of a QSO 
where the frequency was inherited, you must QSY at least 1 kHz before 
calling a station or at least 5 kHz before soliciting other calls.  Once 
a station is required to QSY, that station is not allowed to make 
another QSO on the vacated frequency until you make at least one QSO on 
another frequency.  Mults count once for the whole contest.  Dupes not 
allowed for credit.  E-mail KU8E promptly to join a South East Sprint 
Coaltition team.  (ku8e at bellsouth.net)

8.  Tennessee QSO Party.  18Z Sun to 03Z Mon.  CW, Ph, Dig.  160-UHF. 
Exchange:  RS(T) + SPC or TN county.  W4NZ says all counties may be 
activated.

I will try to be QRV Friday night and Saturday part time in CW and Phone 
contests, but will miss the first half, at least, of the Sprint and 
won't be QRV on Sunday, so will miss all of TQP.  Note that there is a 
team competition in the TQP.  Teams consist of five members of a club 
either inside or outside the state.  They do not need to be registered 
in advance.  SECC has won this club competition at least once.  It would 
be interesting if ACG and/or SECC entered teams or perhaps a join entry 
if there aren't enough for separate teams.  However, I'd think there 
would be enough for a team from each club.

Hope everyone has a good week and weekend and a lot of QSOs.  73, John, 
K4BAI.